Posted on 09/16/2020 10:23:38 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The Justice Department on Wednesday announced indictments against five Chinese and two Malaysian individuals for allegedly targeting and hacking over 100 companies in the U.S. and around the world.
The five Chinese nationals, part of a hacking group known as “APT41,” were charged with targeting video game companies, telecommunications groups, social media platforms, computer hardware manufacturers, foreign governments, universities, think tanks, and pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, while two Malaysian nationals were taken into custody for conspiracy in some of the attacks.
In addition, the Justice Department announced that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia had issued warrants to seize hundreds of accounts, servers and domain names used by the alleged hackers to conduct attacks. The agency noted that Microsoft assisted this effort by implementing measures to block the hackers from accessing networks, and that Facebook, Verizon and Google had also assisted in this effort.
“Today’s charges, the related arrests, seizures of malware and other infrastructure used to conduct intrusions, and coordinated private sector protective actions reveal yet again the department’s determination to use all of the tools at its disposal and to collaborate with the private sector and nations who support the rule of law in cyberspace,” Assistant Attorney General John Demers said in a statement. “This is the only way to neutralize malicious nation state cyber activity.”
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China’s ChiComs are being exposed several times each day on Free Republic and even in the real media re their criminal actions against Americans, spying and control of our media and politicians.
The link below basically just covers September 2020!
http://freerepublic.com/tag/china/index
Today’s internet attacks.
https://securitycenter.sonicwall.com/m/page/worldwide-attacks
As normal, nothing is coming from Russia.
The majority of USA attacks today are coming from inside the USA.
Too bad we can’t cut off China and N. Korea from the internet.
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